Earlier this twelvemonth Zeit Online released a fascinating analysis of the most pop High German street names. As business office of this investigation they looked into how street names reverberate society's prejudices, beliefs together with attitudes. One matter the projection revealed was the under-representation of women inward urban marrow street names.
In Streetscapes: Mozart, Marx together with a Dictator Zeit Online looks at the trends of naming streets for people together with historical events. One matter that they discovered is that streets are far to a greater extent than probable to hold upwards named for men than they are for women. For illustration inward Hamburg 2,511 streets are named afterward men together with solely 397 are named afterward women.
Zeit are non the solely ones to accept noticed the lack of representation of women inward the names nosotros give to our streets. Geochicas accept likewise been investigating the under-representation of women inward street names. They accept looked at a number of Latin American together with Castilian cities to explore the number of streets named for men compared to women.
Las Calles de las Mujeres is an interactive map which shows all streets named for men together with women inward Asuncion, Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Cochabamba, Lima together with Montevideo. In each urban marrow roads named for men are colored bluish together with roads colored yellowish accept been named for women. The colors on the map furnish a quick overview of how many streets accept been named for women compared to men. Just to brand certain that in that place is no incertitude virtually the number the map sidebar likewise includes a pie nautical chart that shows the per centum of streets named for both men together with women inward each city.
Las Calles de las Mujeres likewise aims to celebrate the pocket-sized per centum of women who accept been commemorated past times having streets named afterward them. It has thus linked to the Wikipedia articles (where available) of the women whose names appear on the map. You tin read to a greater extent than virtually the projection (in Spanish) at Geochicas.
Both Zeit Online together with Geochicas used OpenStreetMap information to compare the number of streets named for men together with women. If y'all desire to exercise a similar map yourself so y'all could role Overpass Turbo to explore street names on OpenStreetMap.
If y'all run a enquiry like:
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